People are travelling the world and spending a small fortune on unproven stem cell therapies that are illegal in Australia. Clinics in some countries offer stem cell injections to treat diseases that are otherwise considered incurable. The science is moving quickly but the process of ensuring safe and effective treatments takes time and a lot of money. In the meantime untested therapies pose major risks to patients and to the future of research.

The Federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says a suspected people smuggler should not have been able to leave Australia. Yesterday Federal Police Commissioner Tony Negus said there was no basis to detain the man known as 'Captain Emad', even though he had been under investigation for two years.

Librarians and academics all over the world are up in arms. They're angry and they're making their displeasure known—they're as mad as hell and they're not going to take it any more! Why? They're protesting over the cost of academic journals and access to knowledge. And the focus of their anger is the handful of international publishing companies who control the lion's share of the academic publishing market.